Art & Architecture: Shang valued bronze more than gold. Bronze ritual vessels were symbols of kingship.

Art & Architecture:• Shang valued bronze more than gold.

• Bronze ritual vessels were symbols of kingship.

• Invented porcelain

wares.• Practice of jade

carvings.

• Like Egypt, cities were political and religious social centers. • Most people did not live there.

Zhou learned

to produce glass.

Shang:• Horse-drawn chariots, with spoke-wheels.

Technology:

• Had a calendar system with a 360-day year of 12 months of 30 days each.

• Made silk cloth.

• China enjoys a monopoly of silk for the next thousand years.

• Invented the first compass.Zhou:

• Created acupuncture.

• Agricultural based.• Northern crops wheat

and millet.• Southern crop rice.

• Land divided into small plots.

• Plots owned by a nobles.

• Farmed by peasant or slaves.

Social Stratification.

• Extended families; (multi-generations living in the same household.

• Oldest male was head of the house.

• Marriage often an economic and political tool to promote power.

• Land passed from father to sons.

• Children required to be respectful, obedient, and never argue.

• Wrong actions brought disgrace and punishment to family.

• Fu Hao (Lady Hao), wife of Shang king Wu Ding served as a military general and high priestess.

That concludes Ancient China.

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